Shannon Cram publishes in Visual Anthropology Review

“Placemaking in the Nuclear Sensorium” consider’s Irene Lusztig’s 2023 film, “Richland,” a place-based documentary about a nuclear company town in southeastern Washington State. Built by the US government as part of the Manhattan Project, Richland fueled thousands of weapons in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. IAS faculty member Shannon Cram talks with Lusztig about how this community inhabits the complex and contradictory relations of atomic violence and nuclear pride. So too, they discuss Lusztig’s listening-centered documentary method with a specific focus on what it means to facilitate listening across political and ideological difference.